Predecessors Quote by George W. Bush

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

— Maude Meagher

I swear to formally assume the national executive powers as acting president.

— Juan Guaido

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning…

— Richard M. Nixon

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

— Henry Middleton

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them…

— Lu Xun

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything…

— Francois Rabelais

I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed…

— Tommy Lasorda

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser…

— Bertrand Russell

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

— Mason Cooley

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are…

— Paul Gauguin

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

— Darryl Dawkins